If there is one thing statisticians can claim expertise in, it should be analysis of data. For data coming from designed experiments, the situation is very clear – or so we and many other scientists are taught! The right way to analyse the data is determined by the...

I mentioned that we want to update our Data Flow diagram. This leads to a whole set of questions, but perhaps the most fundamental one is that of shape. One of the main drawbacks to this model is that it’s linear. You start off thinking about who owns the data, then...